Conference History
SUPA, a nationally renowned early college high school program, started in 1972, with English as one of its earliest course offerings to partner schools. Our concurrent enrollment program allows qualified seniors the opportunity to enroll in regular Syracuse University courses on their own high school campuses for college credit.
Courses are taught in participating high schools by carefully selected high school faculty who are trained in special workshops by SU faculty. SUPA English instructors currently teach a year-long course sequence consisting of WRT 105: Practices of Academic Writing and ETS 142: Narratives of Culture: Introduction to Issues of Critical Reading, offered through the SU Writing Program and the English Department.
Project Advance provides a continuing forum for dialogue between high school and university educators, including bi-annual, regionally based professional development seminars and summer workshops.
The very first SUPA English/Writing Conference was held in 1990 on the SU campus. The conference allows instructors from all of our partnering schools, from across New York, as well as in New Jersey, Maine, and Michigan, to convene with campus faculty and interested colleagues from other area schools and colleges and to exchange ideas, best practices, and resources vital to their teaching. This once every fifth year conference also offers educators a unique opportunity to address gaps in curriculum between the high school and post-secondary levels and to imagine innovative ways to bridge those gaps.
Courses are taught in participating high schools by carefully selected high school faculty who are trained in special workshops by SU faculty. SUPA English instructors currently teach a year-long course sequence consisting of WRT 105: Practices of Academic Writing and ETS 142: Narratives of Culture: Introduction to Issues of Critical Reading, offered through the SU Writing Program and the English Department.
Project Advance provides a continuing forum for dialogue between high school and university educators, including bi-annual, regionally based professional development seminars and summer workshops.
The very first SUPA English/Writing Conference was held in 1990 on the SU campus. The conference allows instructors from all of our partnering schools, from across New York, as well as in New Jersey, Maine, and Michigan, to convene with campus faculty and interested colleagues from other area schools and colleges and to exchange ideas, best practices, and resources vital to their teaching. This once every fifth year conference also offers educators a unique opportunity to address gaps in curriculum between the high school and post-secondary levels and to imagine innovative ways to bridge those gaps.